Bruno De Cordier
Biographic Data
| ID | 672779 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruno De Cordier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruno |
| FAMILY NAME | De Cordier |
| SIGNATURE | DE CORDIER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
National Histor(iograph)y: An Ideological Identitarian Frontline
This article examines how present-day Kazakhstan tries to accommodate the existence and function of the Karlag branches of the Soviet Gulag system in the Kazakh Soviet republic and the societal legacies that this episode left, into its state-nation building and its commemoration policies. It thereby discusses the coming into being and the content setup of the Gulag commemoration sites at Malinovka (Aqmol), Dolinka and Spassk as well as para-gover…
Introduction: Ethnic, Civic, or Both? The Ethnicities of Kazakhstan in Search of an Identity and Homeland
Central Asia's Maritime Dimension? The Historical Position and Role of the Aral-Caspian Basin in the Modern Shaping of the Region
Region: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia - Volume 8, Number 2, July 2019
Russia’s ‘Other Ummah’
Since the beginning of the Syrian War, ties between Russia and the Shia sphere are primarily examined in terms of geopolitics, while little attention is being paid to the indigenous as well as immigrant Shia populations in Russia itself. Depending on the motives and circumstances that brought and bring various individuals and groups to more actively-professed Ja’fari Shi’ism, these can become the most active champions of its cause, or of social m…
From Once-Dominant Minority to Historical Christian Outpost on the Southern Caspian: Azerbaijan’s Orthodox Christians
Based on field observations and an empirical survey on religion and identity that was conducted among the Slavic Orthodox population in the wider Baku area and in Ganja, this article examines the identity and social position of this community, now the country’s main Christian population group. While earlier research on the nominally Christian Slavic groups in the Caspian–Central Asian space tended to concentrate on ethnolinguistic and political i…
Russia's international aid donorship: From diplomatic status symbol to “frontline aid”
Russia is generally considered to be a so-called ‘emerging aid donor’ since Moscow officially announced, at the G8 summit in Saint Petersburg in 2006, that it wanted to become a donor economy again after it had been a recipient economy for one and a half decades. More recently, Russia’s reception of refugees from south-eastern Ukraine and the Russian humanitarian convoys to resistance-held areas there added new controversy about the nature of its…
International Aid, Frontier Securitization, and Social Engineering: Soviet–Xinjiang Development Cooperation during the Governorate of Sheng Shicai (1933–1944)
This article looks into the nature and dynamics of Soviet assistance to the Governorate of Sheng Shicai, a military de facto state that existed in Xinjiang between 1933 and 1944. Besides discussing how the various forms of Soviet aid shaped the policies of the Governorate, it also examines how Sheng Shicai used the aid to pursue his desire for inclusive patriotism and social modernization into practice. The article further shows how the ussr acti…
Islamic Social Activism, Globalization and Social Change: A Case Study of Hajji İlgar İbragimoğlu and the Cüma Ehli in Baku, Azerbaijan
Substantial research and reporting have been conducted on the position and dynamics of religion in the historically and culturally Muslim parts of the old USSR. Yet the question whether the reported increase in religious identification and practice in some sectors of society has led to the emergence of a faith-based social sector remains relatively under-examined. Through a detailed case study of Hajji İlgar İbragimoğlu and the Cüma Ehli in Baku,…
On the Thin Line Between Good Intentions and Creating Tensions: A View on Gender Programmes in Muslim Contexts and the (Potential) Position of Islamic Aid Organisations
Challenges of Social Upliftment and Definition of Identity: A Field Analysis of the Social Service Network of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Meerut, India
While social work and charity by Islamic faith-based organizations in majority Muslim contexts has been relatively well-documented over the last few years, less attention is being paid to areas where Muslims form a minority and, as such, face particular challenges of both social uplifting and definition of identity. Against this background, this paper looks into the social base and modus operandi of the efforts by the Social Service Wing of the I…
The ‘Humanitarian Frontline’, Development and Relief, and Religion: What context, which threats and which opportunities
This paper examines the emergence of a humanitarian frontline in several operational contexts. Over the last fifteen years and since 2001 in particular, the international aid sector has been confronted with a climate of polarization. With the traditional aid and donor landscape dominated by Western or Western-aligned parties who are sometimes involved in armed conflict too, aid organizations face the impact of the supposed or real instrumentaliza…
Faith-based aid, globalisation and the humanitarian frontline: An analysis of Western-based Muslim aid organisations
This paper focuses on the emergence and modus operandi of Muslim faith-based aid organisations from the West, particularly those from the United Kingdom. Through case studies of Islamic Relief Worldwide and Muslim Hands, it examines the actual and potential added value generated by these humanitarian players in Muslim-majority contexts at times when aid actors from or associated with the West are being perceived by some as instrumental to the pol…
Islamic faith-based development organizations in former Soviet Muslim environments: The Mountain Societies Development Support Programme in the Rasht valley, Tajikistan
This article aims to examine the modus operandi of the Aga Khan Foundation and its Mountain Societies Development Support Programme (MSDSP) in Tajikistan's Rasht valley. As one of the few non-governmental development programmes from the wider Islamic world in an area where the Sunni beneficiary base is of a different Islamic tradition than the Ismaili Shi'ite community the Foundation is connected with, the MSDSP gained importance and legitimacy a…
In the Name of the Father? Christian Militantism in Tripura, Northern Uganda, and Ambon
Although armed groups and political violence referring to Islam have attracted increasing attention since the start of the global war against terror, one particular religion can hardly be described as the main source of inspiration of what is commonly referred to as "terrorist acts of violence." Faith-based violence occurs in different parts of the world and its perpetrators adhere to all major world faiths including Christianity. As such, this a…
The Finno‐Ugric peoples of Central Russia: Opportunities for emancipation or condemned to assimilation
(1997). The Finno‐Ugric peoples of Central Russia: Opportunities for emancipation or condemned to assimilation? Central Asian Survey: Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 587-609
The economic cooperation organization: Towards a new silk road on the ruins of the cold war
Conflits ethniques et dégradation écologique en Asie centrale. La vallée de Ferghana et le nord du Kazakhstan
This work seeks to demonstrate that the combination of ecological degradation, demographic pressure, and ethnic heterogeneity in Central Asia constitute a serious threat to the future stability of the region. The predominantly rural Ferghana Valley and Northern Kazakhstan suffer from shortages of water and land and from unemployment that leads to extensive out-migration to cities suffering from decline in their Soviet-era industries. The problem …
Faith-based aid, globalisation and the humanitarian frontline: An analysis of Western-based Muslim aid organisations
This paper focuses on the emergence and modus operandi of Muslim faith-based aid organisations from the West, particularly those from the United Kingdom. Through case studies of Islamic Relief Worldwide and Muslim Hands, it examines the actual and potential added value generated by these humanitarian players in Muslim-majority contexts at times when aid actors from or associated with the West are being perceived by some as instrumental to the pol…
The ‘Humanitarian Frontline’, Development and Relief, and Religion: What context, which threats and which opportunities
This paper examines the emergence of a humanitarian frontline in several operational contexts. Over the last fifteen years and since 2001 in particular, the international aid sector has been confronted with a climate of polarization. With the traditional aid and donor landscape dominated by Western or Western-aligned parties who are sometimes involved in armed conflict too, aid organizations face the impact of the supposed or real instrumentaliza…
Islamic Social Activism, Globalization and Social Change: A Case Study of Hajji İlgar İbragimoğlu and the Cüma Ehli in Baku, Azerbaijan
Substantial research and reporting have been conducted on the position and dynamics of religion in the historically and culturally Muslim parts of the old USSR. Yet the question whether the reported increase in religious identification and practice in some sectors of society has led to the emergence of a faith-based social sector remains relatively under-examined. Through a detailed case study of Hajji İlgar İbragimoğlu and the Cüma Ehli in Baku,…
In the Name of the Father? Christian Militantism in Tripura, Northern Uganda, and Ambon
Although armed groups and political violence referring to Islam have attracted increasing attention since the start of the global war against terror, one particular religion can hardly be described as the main source of inspiration of what is commonly referred to as "terrorist acts of violence." Faith-based violence occurs in different parts of the world and its perpetrators adhere to all major world faiths including Christianity. As such, this a…
On the Thin Line Between Good Intentions and Creating Tensions: A View on Gender Programmes in Muslim Contexts and the (Potential) Position of Islamic Aid Organisations
Introduction: Ethnic, Civic, or Both? The Ethnicities of Kazakhstan in Search of an Identity and Homeland
Challenges of Social Upliftment and Definition of Identity: A Field Analysis of the Social Service Network of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Meerut, India
While social work and charity by Islamic faith-based organizations in majority Muslim contexts has been relatively well-documented over the last few years, less attention is being paid to areas where Muslims form a minority and, as such, face particular challenges of both social uplifting and definition of identity. Against this background, this paper looks into the social base and modus operandi of the efforts by the Social Service Wing of the I…
The economic cooperation organization: Towards a new silk road on the ruins of the cold war
Conflits ethniques et dégradation écologique en Asie centrale. La vallée de Ferghana et le nord du Kazakhstan
This work seeks to demonstrate that the combination of ecological degradation, demographic pressure, and ethnic heterogeneity in Central Asia constitute a serious threat to the future stability of the region. The predominantly rural Ferghana Valley and Northern Kazakhstan suffer from shortages of water and land and from unemployment that leads to extensive out-migration to cities suffering from decline in their Soviet-era industries. The problem …
The Finno‐Ugric peoples of Central Russia: Opportunities for emancipation or condemned to assimilation
(1997). The Finno‐Ugric peoples of Central Russia: Opportunities for emancipation or condemned to assimilation? Central Asian Survey: Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 587-609
In the Name of the Father? Christian Militantism in Tripura, Northern Uganda, and Ambon
Although armed groups and political violence referring to Islam have attracted increasing attention since the start of the global war against terror, one particular religion can hardly be described as the main source of inspiration of what is commonly referred to as "terrorist acts of violence." Faith-based violence occurs in different parts of the world and its perpetrators adhere to all major world faiths including Christianity. As such, this a…
Islamic faith-based development organizations in former Soviet Muslim environments: The Mountain Societies Development Support Programme in the Rasht valley, Tajikistan
This article aims to examine the modus operandi of the Aga Khan Foundation and its Mountain Societies Development Support Programme (MSDSP) in Tajikistan's Rasht valley. As one of the few non-governmental development programmes from the wider Islamic world in an area where the Sunni beneficiary base is of a different Islamic tradition than the Ismaili Shi'ite community the Foundation is connected with, the MSDSP gained importance and legitimacy a…
The ‘Humanitarian Frontline’, Development and Relief, and Religion: What context, which threats and which opportunities
This paper examines the emergence of a humanitarian frontline in several operational contexts. Over the last fifteen years and since 2001 in particular, the international aid sector has been confronted with a climate of polarization. With the traditional aid and donor landscape dominated by Western or Western-aligned parties who are sometimes involved in armed conflict too, aid organizations face the impact of the supposed or real instrumentaliza…
Faith-based aid, globalisation and the humanitarian frontline: An analysis of Western-based Muslim aid organisations
This paper focuses on the emergence and modus operandi of Muslim faith-based aid organisations from the West, particularly those from the United Kingdom. Through case studies of Islamic Relief Worldwide and Muslim Hands, it examines the actual and potential added value generated by these humanitarian players in Muslim-majority contexts at times when aid actors from or associated with the West are being perceived by some as instrumental to the pol…
On the Thin Line Between Good Intentions and Creating Tensions: A View on Gender Programmes in Muslim Contexts and the (Potential) Position of Islamic Aid Organisations
Challenges of Social Upliftment and Definition of Identity: A Field Analysis of the Social Service Network of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Meerut, India
While social work and charity by Islamic faith-based organizations in majority Muslim contexts has been relatively well-documented over the last few years, less attention is being paid to areas where Muslims form a minority and, as such, face particular challenges of both social uplifting and definition of identity. Against this background, this paper looks into the social base and modus operandi of the efforts by the Social Service Wing of the I…
Islamic Social Activism, Globalization and Social Change: A Case Study of Hajji İlgar İbragimoğlu and the Cüma Ehli in Baku, Azerbaijan
Substantial research and reporting have been conducted on the position and dynamics of religion in the historically and culturally Muslim parts of the old USSR. Yet the question whether the reported increase in religious identification and practice in some sectors of society has led to the emergence of a faith-based social sector remains relatively under-examined. Through a detailed case study of Hajji İlgar İbragimoğlu and the Cüma Ehli in Baku,…
Russia's international aid donorship: From diplomatic status symbol to “frontline aid”
Russia is generally considered to be a so-called ‘emerging aid donor’ since Moscow officially announced, at the G8 summit in Saint Petersburg in 2006, that it wanted to become a donor economy again after it had been a recipient economy for one and a half decades. More recently, Russia’s reception of refugees from south-eastern Ukraine and the Russian humanitarian convoys to resistance-held areas there added new controversy about the nature of its…
International Aid, Frontier Securitization, and Social Engineering: Soviet–Xinjiang Development Cooperation during the Governorate of Sheng Shicai (1933–1944)
This article looks into the nature and dynamics of Soviet assistance to the Governorate of Sheng Shicai, a military de facto state that existed in Xinjiang between 1933 and 1944. Besides discussing how the various forms of Soviet aid shaped the policies of the Governorate, it also examines how Sheng Shicai used the aid to pursue his desire for inclusive patriotism and social modernization into practice. The article further shows how the ussr acti…
From Once-Dominant Minority to Historical Christian Outpost on the Southern Caspian: Azerbaijan’s Orthodox Christians
Based on field observations and an empirical survey on religion and identity that was conducted among the Slavic Orthodox population in the wider Baku area and in Ganja, this article examines the identity and social position of this community, now the country’s main Christian population group. While earlier research on the nominally Christian Slavic groups in the Caspian–Central Asian space tended to concentrate on ethnolinguistic and political i…
Russia’s ‘Other Ummah’
Since the beginning of the Syrian War, ties between Russia and the Shia sphere are primarily examined in terms of geopolitics, while little attention is being paid to the indigenous as well as immigrant Shia populations in Russia itself. Depending on the motives and circumstances that brought and bring various individuals and groups to more actively-professed Ja’fari Shi’ism, these can become the most active champions of its cause, or of social m…
Central Asia's Maritime Dimension? The Historical Position and Role of the Aral-Caspian Basin in the Modern Shaping of the Region
Region: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia - Volume 8, Number 2, July 2019
Introduction: Ethnic, Civic, or Both? The Ethnicities of Kazakhstan in Search of an Identity and Homeland
National Histor(iograph)y: An Ideological Identitarian Frontline
This article examines how present-day Kazakhstan tries to accommodate the existence and function of the Karlag branches of the Soviet Gulag system in the Kazakh Soviet republic and the societal legacies that this episode left, into its state-nation building and its commemoration policies. It thereby discusses the coming into being and the content setup of the Gulag commemoration sites at Malinovka (Aqmol), Dolinka and Spassk as well as para-gover…
Political science (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Geography (8 works) · History (7 works) · History (7 works) · Islam (6 works) · Political economy (6 works)